F. Randall "Randy" Farmer has created and organized numerous online communities. He is probably most famous for his role creating one of the first graphical online MMOG

Massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and usually feature at least one persistent world. They are, however, not necessarily games played on...

s, Lucasfilm's graphical MUD Habitat

Habitat (video game)

Lucasfilm's Habitat was an early and technologically influential online role-playing game developed by Lucasfilm Games and made available as a beta test in 1986 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online...

, with Chip Morningstar

Chip Morningstar

Chip Morningstar is an author, academic and developer of software systems for online entertainment and communication. A University of Michigan graduate, he participated in Project Xanadu, for which the word hypertext was first coined. Later, he overhauled the chat environment known as The Palace,...

. Farmer was co-founder of the Internet startup Electric Communities, and later involved in the design of Yahoo! 360.

He recently co-authored a book for O'Reilly and Yahoo! Press: Building Web Reputation Systems.

External links

• Habitat Chronicles, the blog of Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar
  Chip Morningstar
  Chip Morningstar is an author, academic and developer of software systems for online entertainment and communication. A University of Michigan graduate, he participated in Project Xanadu, for which the word hypertext was first coined. Later, he overhauled the chat environment known as The Palace,...
  
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• "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat", by Farmer and Morningstar, presented at the First International Conference on Cyberspace (UT Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  , May 1990). Published in Cyberspace: First Steps, Michael Benedikt
  Michael Benedikt
  Michael Benedikt is the 2004 ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism. Benedikt directs the Center for American Architecture and Design.His works include:...
  
   (ed.), MIT Press 1991. ISBN 0-262-02327-X.
• Randy Farmer at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...
  
  
• Randy Farmer's resume
• Building Web Reputation Systems book, blog, and wiki for the O'Reilly/Yahoo! Press title co-authored with Bryce Glass.